Out of the Blue

Out of the Blue (2022) is a neo-noir thriller from Neil LaBute that you can watch online on iFILM. Fresh out of prison on an assault charge, Connor Bates reshelves books at a small-town library and spends his free hours running the shoreline and swimming, trying to glue his life back together. Then a woman shows up on the beach.

Marilyn Chambers is married to a rich businessman and plainly bored behind the money. The affair ignites fast — physical, reckless, all heat. At first it's just pillow talk. Then the pillow talk turns to how much easier everything would be if her husband simply vanished. Connor can't tell where desire ends and the setup begins, and you lose your footing right alongside him.

Diane Kruger plays the wife you should never trust; Ray Nicholson is the man willing to burn for her, with Hank Azaria as the husband in the way. LaBute, a writer-director known for cold chamber dramas about manipulation, drops a classic femme-fatale plot into the sun-bleached coastline of Rhode Island. One for viewers who like their lust to curdle into evidence. Stream Out of the Blue (2022) online on iFILM.